Boxen Alesia Graf
German boxing world champion dies at just 43 years old
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Far too early death: Alesia Graf
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The native Belarusian Alesia Graf started boxing in Germany. She became world champion in two associations and was one of the best in the world. Now she has died, the cause of death is still unknown.
The boxing world mourns Alesia Graf. She was one of the best boxers in the world and was under contract with the Hamburg Universum boxing stable led by promoter Klaus-Peter Kohl and manager Peter Hanraths. Now Alesia Graf has died at the age of just 43. The background to the tragic death is still unclear.
Regina Halmich, former world champion and former team colleague, told “Bild”: “I still can’t believe it. We had a great time together. Two women in a boxing domain among men. We trained together, laughed together and did a lot outside of training. We trained together for almost a decade. Alesia also carried the world championship belt into the ring during my fights and we stuck together and supported each other. We were friends.”
Alesia Graf was born Alesia Klimowitsch on October 14, 1980 in Gomel (USSR/Belarus). She came to Germany in 1999 and has had the name Graf since her marriage. In 2008 she received German citizenship. She started boxing in Germany in 2001, starting in the bantamweight division.
Alesia Graf’s boxing fight name was “The Tigress”
At first she fought among amateurs, later successfully in the professional camp. As an amateur boxer, she won the title of international German champion.
Source: DPA
After the GBU world championship title (2006), Graf, who bore the battle name “The Tigress”, also won the internationally important title of world champion from the WIBF association (2008). Halmich was also successful in this world association and became world champion. The Stuttgart native fought a total of 29 professional fights and lost eight. Alesia Graf fought her last fight as a professional boxer on January 19, 2019 against the Dane Dina Thorslund, which she lost. Graf was prepared for her fights by the well-known professional trainer Valentin Silaghi in Hamburg during Universum’s times. In Stuttgart her coach was Heinz Schulz.
Former Universum manager Peter Hanraths told “Bild”: “My deepest condolences to the family. Alesia was a really great woman, very hardworking. She was very ambitious and strong-willed. Alongside Regina Halmich, one of our best women in boxing.”
